Jay Stewart, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
University of California, San Francisco
Biography
Dr. Jay Stewart is a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Chief of Ophthalmology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Dr. Stewart is a vitreoretinal specialist whose expertise includes complex vitreoretinal surgery and the care of conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, ocular trauma, retinal detachment, retinal vascular diseases and uveitis.
Dr. Stewart earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed residency in ophthalmology at UCSF. He completed a fellowship in vitreoretinal diseases and surgery at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and won the Ronald G. Michels Fellowship Foundation Award in Vitreoretinal Surgery.
Dr. Stewart is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports and is on the Editorial Board of Ophthalmology Science. In his research, Dr. Stewart studies diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, drug delivery to the eye and the permeability and biomechanics of eye tissues. He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Retina Specialists, the Retina Society, and the Macula Society.